Example sentences for: evocative

How can you use “evocative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One reason is that this is an age of memoirs: Wilde, who self-consciously made his own life a work of art, is an evocative symbol for self-involved literature.

  • It’s an easy walk to Piazza San Marco and the Dominican Monastery of San Marco, an evocative setting for a museum largely devoted to the paintings of Florentine-born Fra Angelico (1387–1455), who lived here as a monk.

  • Deciding that the normal rules of punctuation and grammar promoted old-fashioned sentiment, she came up with new rules of her own (question marks and exclamation points verboten ; evocative nouns and adjectives dangerous; adverbs excellent, because they're about nothing more than the relationship between words).

  • The most absorbing sections chart the struggle to power with a variety of illustrations: countless maps, evocative photos of both torture victims and triumphal scenes, and assorted personal memorabilia from passports to bloodstained clothes.

  • From here you can hike cross-country to the evocative remains of Katholikó, Crete’s first monastery, founded in the 11th century by St. John the Hermit.


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